Re: Pulling X11 dependency out of the Erlang package.
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:15:07PM +0200, Samuel Mimram wrote:
> Justin Pryzby wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:12:13AM -0400, Fran?ois-Denis Gonthier wrote:
> >>- Make a new version of the main package with the X11 dependency removed.
> >>Some package works that way (example: ocaml-base vs. ocaml-base-nox).
> >
> >Its not clear to me what you mean. Do you mean, build two erlang
> >binary packages, which Conflict: with each other, and which are the
> >same at the text-based level, but one additionally includes the gui
> >tk? This seems like a less optimal solution than the previous one.
> >It unnecessarily duplicates the text-based components in two packages.
>
> No.
>
> "ocaml-nox" contains the text-based tools for ocaml and "ocaml" only
> contains the additionnal libraries which need X (and depends on ocaml-nox).
So isn't this the same as the previous method, then? Make an empty
transitional package, depending on the X and NOX packages?
Justin
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